Pride

Given to at least 89 boys since the 1950s, word name Pride might be viewed as either a virtue name or an anti-virtue name, depending on how you look at it.

On one hand, it has the positive associations of being proud of yourself and of celebrating your own achievements, qualities and successes. Parents might also refer to their child as their pride and joy: someone that their proud of.

On the other hand, however, pride is linked to vanity, self-conceit, and feelings of superiority. It is associated with an excessive kind of self-love that turns to arrogance and vanity.

We suspect it was the more positive associations parents who chose this name had in mind when they picked it, though there's always the possibility it was family surname too.

Other things this word name brings to mind include: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the name for a group of lions, and LGBTQ+ Pride, both the celebratory parades and the promotion of rights and equality.

The name most recently appeared in the charts in 2020, when it was given to 6 boys, though celeb couple KJ Smith and Skyh Black named their daughter Pryde in 2025.

Pronounced PRYD.

As of October 2026, Pride ranked #11650 for boys in US births in 2020 SSA, peaked at #3515 for boys in 1959.